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For the past several years IBM has
been divesting its hardware business.
At the same time, Oracle has continued
to invest in IT infrastructure and cloud
innovation. Oracle SPARC servers offer
you greater performance and efficiency
compared to IBM Power systems, with
additional security and lower costs, along
with the flexibility to run your applications
on-premises or in the Oracle Cloud.

IBM LinuxONE™ is an enterprise Linux server
engineered to deliver cloud services that are
secure, fast and instantly scalable. The newest
member of the family, IBM LinuxONE
Emperor™ II, is designed for businesses where
the following may be required:
• protecting sensitive transactions and
minimizing business risk
• accelerating the movement of data,
even with the largest databases
• growing users and transactions instantly
while maintaining operational excellence
• accessing an open platform that
speeds innovation

According to industry analyst IDC, the mean cost of an
hour of downtime can range from USD 224,952 to
USD 1,659,428, depending on the size of your organization.1
And each instance of downtime increases your total cost of
ownership (TCO) and eats away at your IT budget.

Today, everything computes. Intelligence has been infused into
things no one would recognize as computers: appliances, cars,
roadways, clothes, even rivers and cornfields. Tomorrow, many
of these things will think, thanks to breakthroughs in cognitive
computing. Even the things that don’t think themselves will
continue collecting and reporting the massive quantities of
data that feed cognitive systems.

In today’s always on world, IT systems are so interdependent
with business operations that even a few minutes of downtime
can have big implications—for your productivity, reputation
and finances. New technologies like cloud, mobile, analytics
and social can help your business be more flexible and
responsive, but at the same time they increase your risk.

Welcome to IT as a Service For Dummies, IBM Limited Edition. IT as a Service is the emerging technique that gives technology leaders the flexibility of providing the right set of services to the business. The world of IT is changing dramatically. Businesses are increasingly discovering that IT services are becoming the foundation for the customer experience. IT as a Service isn’t simply a new delivery model for applications. Instead, IT as a Service is a new approach to providing an array of modular services that are targeted to solve changing business problems. While services can be as straightforward as compute or storage in the cloud, they can also be used to complex solutions. Other services may include microservices or integration services that enable a business to quickly create new solutions to help service customers in a more creative and efficient manner.

Moving workloads from an on-premise software-defined data center to the cloud is an extremely stressful time for CIOs. But with the powerful IBM-VMware alliance, businesses can now extend their VMware workloads from on-premises environment to the IBM® Cloud within hours, not weeks.

Find out how you can take advantage of hybrid cloud by extending or migrating workloads using secure and seamless networking capabilities offered by VMware. All of this is available on secure, single-tenant IBM Bluemix bare metal servers on IBM Cloud, giving you the utmost control.

Find out how you can take advantage of hybrid cloud by extending or migrating workloads using secure and seamless networking capabilities offered by VMware. All of this is available on secure, single-tenant IBM Bluemix bare metal servers on IBM Cloud, giving you the utmost control.

This Frost & Sullivan whitepaper explores some of the common fears and challenges related to security and compliance, and how a skilled managed service provider can help you overcome them as you deploy sensitive, business-critical workloads in the cloud.

For any sized organization, securing data and networks today is a daunting task. New vulnerabilities are discovered almost daily; new malware strains are developed as soon as a detection script is written for the old ones; and cybercriminals can buy prepackaged exploit kits on the Darknet backed by professional support teams. As a security analyst, you need more than a few point solutions designed to defend the network’s edge. You need visibility, perspective and an innate sense of when things just don’t seem right.

This white paper describes the pervasive lack of resiliency planning in most cloud implementations today and discusses how better up-front assessment and planning can help organizations realize the enormous potential cloud offers for improved, more agile resiliency.

Automating for Digital Transformation: Tools-driven DevOps and Continuous Software Delivery in the Enterprise.
Learn why companies are adopting DevOps to speed software delivery and innovation
Understand why “speed with quality” is the real challenge of Continuous Delivery and the importance of automation
Explore DevOps best practices and automation tools in place at high performing companies

This brochure looks at how you can accelerate and simplify application delivery. IBM PureApplication is the fastest and simplest way to cloud-enable, deploy, manage, and move applications and middleware across your hybrid cloud.

What if your organization could take advantage of emerging business opportunities by deploying new applications faster? With IBM PureApplication solutions, companies can build and use a cloud environment faster, easier and with less risk to better engage with their customers and partners.

This book helps you understand DevOps and how your organization can gain real business benefits from it. You also discover how a holistic view of DevOps that encompasses the entire software delivery life cycle.

In this era of digital transformation, business and IT leaders across all industries are looking for ways to easily and cost-effectively unlock the value of enterprise data and use it to deliver new customer experiences while fueling business growth. The digital economy is changing the way organizations gather information, gain insights, reinvent their businesses and innovate both quickly and iteratively.